The BRIT Awards 2027. A Manchester night, run properly.

We own our cars and employ our chauffeurs in London and Manchester. For the BRITs that is the whole difference: the car and the driver are based in the city, not sent up the M6 on the morning of the show with no feel for the roads. Our Manchester chauffeurs know which approach to the Etihad Campus is moving at seven o'clock on a Saturday, and where a car can legitimately sit while a party of six finishes in the bar.

Most of our BRITs work is not the walk down the carpet. It is the label executive bringing clients, the management company moving three artists and their teams between a hotel, the arena and an aftershow, the brand running a table of guests, and the PR who needs a car that will not vanish at midnight. Tell us how many people, how many cars and how late you expect to be, and we build the night around it rather than around a pickup time.

Co-op Live sits inside the Etihad Campus, which runs a residents' parking scheme and designated drop-off and collection points rather than letting cars stop where they like. Public drop-off and collection is signed to Edwin Road, and on-site parking has to be booked in advance for event days. Accredited vehicles with a production, talent or hospitality pass use their own routes and gates, and those passes are issued by the show, not by us.

In practice that means three sensible ways to do the night. If you hold an accreditation, send it to us and your chauffeur presents it at the gate you have been allocated. If you do not, we drop as close as the marshals will allow and your chauffeur waits at an agreed point away from the cordon until you call. If you are moving a group, we position cars on the outbound side of the campus before the show ends, because the twenty minutes after the last award is when every vehicle on site tries to leave at once.

Getting to the BRITs is a solvable problem. Getting away from the aftershows is the one that goes wrong, because parties move, they run long, and a car booked for a fixed time is either gone or has been standing in the wrong street for an hour. We keep the chauffeur on the job until your night ends, and we keep the operations desk staffed while it does, so a change of venue at midnight is a phone call rather than a crisis. If the party moves from the city centre to a hotel in Salford or out to Cheshire, the car follows you.